Something pretty shady happens when you Google the ginger emoji

The battle to get a redhead emoji added to keyboards has certainly not been without impassioned debate. But, now it seems Google might have waded into the ginger emoji discussion with a rather shady message. 

If you're an iPhone user with Gboard enabled on your keyboard, something pretty unusual happens when you emoji search the word "ginger." Google's Gboard presents you with a bunch of middle finger emoji. (How rude!) 

Redheads are currently jubilantly celebrating as a standalone redhead emoji has just been made a candidate for 2018's Unicode release. If accepted, they could be added to emoji keyboards by mid-2018. Given that Ginger Parrot (a website for redheads and their supporters) launched a petition for the ginger emoji two years ago, this is a pretty huge victory.

Does Google secretly dislike redheads? Or is it sick of hearing about the flight for the ginger emoji?  Read more...